The 10 questions:

1. What is your min is the number one lesson to be learned from your way of looking at data; what ought our governments do that they are not doing./numberwang

2. If you could present your stats to a panel of any five people in the world, who would you chosse and why?/reubensandwich

3. In my experience, people do not understand statistics and will never change their opinion based on statistics, I would like to ask if you agree. /universalsprout

4. What are the most startling or intriguing correlation you have encountered while playing with different values on the the x and y axis at gapminder.org. /rugs729

5. What do you think of the state of statistics education in high school and colleges? /kunjaan

6. Would you be willing to help the WhiteHouse present the Healthcare budget in such a way as to make it easier for the average person to understand the value of a public option or single payer plan? /gerskerski

7. Do you think CUDA is an important step in the path of better and richer visualizations of data? /playeren

8. What are your future plans for Gapminder?
/papper

9. What can bra done to encourage governments and international organizations to more actively and effectively collect and publish vital statistics? /bordergroves

10a. But how do you recommend that I or we help the “bottom billion”? I’m wondering about practical ways the “top billion” can assist the “bottom billion” with small units of organizations. /Phatlikebuddha

10b. What’s it like knowing so many on reedit have intense nerd crushes on you? /Stranger2love

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